Improvement in ice-floors for refrigerator-buildings



0.1m LA VBRGNE su E. M. DAVIBS. Ice-Plor for Refrigerator-Buildings.

No. 197,482. Pate'nted Nov. 27,1877.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEI'GE.

JoI-IN c. DE LA YEEGNE, or JEEsEY cITY, N. J., AND EDWIN M. DAvIEs, or NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN ICE-FLOORS FOR REFRlGERATOR-BUILDINGS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 197,482, dated November 27, 1877; application filed October 16, 1877.

To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known vthat we, JOHN C. DE LA VERGNE, of Jersey City, county of Hudson, State of New Jersey, and EDWIN M. DAvIEs, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Refrigerators, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification.

Our invention relates to an improvement in that class of refrigerators in which the ice is placed in an upper chamber and supported by joists, with gutters between the joists for leading off the drippings of the ice.

The object of our invention is to more easily remove or take down gutters inlarge refrigerators, when necessary to clean, repair, or put the catches on the joists; Fig. 3, a detached crutch'.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A A represent the joists for supporting the ice B, the gutter for carrying away the water C C, the crutches for supporting the gutters,

and a a the catches forl holding the crutches to their proper places between the-joists. The crutches are made of diiferent depths, to accommodate any required pitch of the gutters necessary for good drainage, and formed to the curve or angle of the under side of the gutter.

Having now described our invention, we will proceed to set forth what we claim and desireto secure by Letters Patent of the United States:

In refrigerators, the combination, with the joists A A and the gutter B, of the movable crutch C and catches a a, as and for the pur pose set forth.

JoEN o. DE LA VEEGNE. EDWIN M. DAvIEs.

Witnesses W. M. MIXER, WALTER A. MONTAGUE. 

